difficulty vs stress

stress vs difficulty

difficulty and stress both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while stress is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
stress	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stress is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, stress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
stress: difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	stress (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
	(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
	difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
	special emphasis attached to something

difficulty (verb)	stress (verb)
	to suffer from stress
	to stress, single out as important
	put stress on; utter with an accent
	test the limits of

Difference between difficulty and stress

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